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2018 Panini Immaculate NFL Preview

2018 Panini Immaculate NFL is set to make its return in the middle of the season, packing five autograph or memorabilia cards and one base or parallel into its six-card boxes.

Immaculate will offer a 100-card base set with Gold (# to 5) and 1/1 Platinum parallels but as always with this higher-end product, it’s the signatures and large patch cards that most collectors are chasing.

Panini says all of this year’s on-card autographs in Immaculate will be on acetate card stock.

Among the new autograph subsets are Immaculate Hall of Fame signatures, which focus on players who’ve been enshrined in Canton; Immaculate Careers, focused on cards of players who enjoyed long, productive stays in the NFL and Immaculate Records.

Immaculate Duals and Trios feature on-card signatures from two or three stars on one card.

On-card signed memorabilia card subsets include Rookie Patch Autographs, which feature top first-year players. All cards are max numbered to 99 with Gold versions numbered to 25 and 1/1 Platinum Tags and NFL Shield versions.

Panini is promising more full-sized memorabilia cards that feature swatches of jersey numbers, team logo and laundry tags.

Immaculate Shields is a new insert that has cards with an NFL logo patch. Dual Player Shields is a subset with a checklist of 60 big name NFL pairings including Odell Beckham Jr./Saquon Barkley, Larry Fitzgerald/Josh Rosen, Von Miller/Bradley Chubb, Cam Newton/D.J. Moore, Joe Montana/Jimmy Garoppolo, Russell Wilson/Rashaad Penny and T.J. Watt/J.J. Watt.

Immaculate Hall of Fame Jerseys will be numbered to 49 or less.

Also new for 2018 are Immaculate Eye Black Jersey cards, which contain signed eye-black pieces and a jersey patch. Gold Ink versions are numbered to 7 with 1/1 tags in the mix. In fact, Panini says Immaculate will offer over 50 percent more 1/1 cards in 2018 Immaculate than in years past.

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